"People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things."

Sir Edmund Hillary, first to climb Mt. Everest

"The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before."

Steve Young, football player

"Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements."

Napoleon Hill, Pioneer of Personal Achievement Philosophy

"When giving, only let others know the tip of what you are doing to encourage by example. Never allow anyone to know everything you do in the name of humanitarian deeds. For it is these unknown deeds that will bring you lasting fulfillment, spiritual evolution, and blessings from The Light, but only if your intentions are sincere. This is the spirit of giving without agenda."

Jon Christopher Sosa

"People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. People who really want help may attack you if you help them. Help them anyway. Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway."

Mother Teresa

"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."

Wayne Dyer

"Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others."

Aristotle

"What destroys our happiness?

Envy. Being busy with desiring what other people have. This takes our focus away from appreciating all the wonderful things we have, leading to a sense of lack and unhappiness.

Today, learn appreciation by imagining what life would be like if the things, people, qualities, abilities you do have were taken away. Every time you find yourself fixated on the glittering lives in the pages of People, or the shiny new toys your neighbor has, bring your focus back to your life. Come back home to yourself, to your life, and look around. What if these things weren't here tomorrow? How much would you miss them?"

Y Berg.

"Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them."

Aristotle

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."

Theodore Roosevelt, 26th U.S. President

"Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform."

Pythagoras